Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB NVMe Linux SSD Benchmarks

Samsung SSDs for several generations have performed quite oddly with the SQLite embedded database library benchmark. The Samsung 970 EVO Plus does come out ahead of the 970 EVO and PRO models, but well behind the performance seen out of the Intel SSDs. SQLite is a workload where Samsung SSDs perform abnormally slow.

With 4K random reads via FIO, the Samsung 970 EVO Plus was coming in at 185K IOPS and write between the EVO and PRO siblings, but well behind the higher-end Intel DC P3600 and Optane 900p drives.

The Samsung 970 series performed about the same with our Linux random write benchmarks.

Sequential reads with the Samsung 970 EVO came in slightly behind the 970 EVO 500GB model under the FIO benchmarks.

But the Samsung 970 EVO Plus did perform very well with sequential write performance.